After decades of attempts to develop new birth control medications for men, scientists are more hopeful than ever. With new abortion restrictions, demand is growing, experts say.

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  • @Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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    2226 days ago

    I mean this is just “sperm suppression”, of course it lowers the risk of pregnancy considerably, but not 100%. I’ll still get my tubes snipped at this point. As a guy you simply don’t have a lot of options if you want to be safe. Condoms and vasectomy, that’s it. And condoms can fail too if you’re unlucky.

    As soon as the girl is pregnant all you can do is pray she doesn’t decide to keep the kid :-/

    • @AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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      1226 days ago

      I got a vasectomy and it was crazy easy. Had a meeting with my doc just so he could make sure I knew it was permanent, I asked if I could have something extra for the pain and dude was like “I can give you vallium is that alright?” Showed up day of, took like 30 mins and didn’t feel a thing. Only thing was the smell of burning flesh was a little much but that was literally it.

      My partner wants some form of permanent BC herself but literally no doctor will allow it.

    • @Sestren@lemmy.world
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      5326 days ago

      As with any invisible or otherwise difficult to monitor birth control method, this is really only for people in dedicated relationships.

      It goes both ways. A man shouldn’t trust a women he just met to be on birth control. A women should have the same reservations.

      This is for people who can trust a long term partner, and who wouldn’t be destroyed by the failure of the product. And that’s still a huge market.

        • @techt@lemmy.world
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          125 days ago

          Why not delete the comment and respond to the right person? Not that you should at this point, but it would have taken less time than explaining it in an edit so I’m curious

          • @chumbalumber
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            225 days ago

            I would guess because people get a notification with the comment. If that then gets deleted without explanation then you leave someone confused.

    • @arin@lemmy.world
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      2626 days ago

      I’ve several ex girlfriends who fuck up taking their daily birth control and needed plan b… IDK why men would be worse tho, please explain?

      • @Today@lemmy.world
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        126 days ago

        They knew they missed it, chose to have sex anyway, and took steps to prevent pregnancy. You probably saw that plan b is not really fun and not something you want to do often. That’s different than someone not telling you they’re inconsistent with the med or telling you afterwards.

        • @Slayan@lemmy.ca
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          Biases and more biases. More way to prevent pregnacy is good and a male one(finally) is even better. No one is forcing you to stop using yours? Why are shitting on extra protection?

        • @arin@lemmy.world
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          26 days ago

          My ex gfs also did the same, also told me to cum inside. Fucking horny 19 year olds girls were crazy. Well even when we got older they still be thirsty for that jizz

    • @laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
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      2526 days ago

      Such a weird argument. Look beyond that one use case.

      In my case, I, a male, don’t want kids. I would get this. I’d still use condoms, because STDs. But in the event that they don’t work (because it can happen), at least I know that I won’t get anyone accidentally pregnant. It’s great!

    • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      1026 days ago

      It’s for relationships. if you’re with a new partner use condoms.

      This is why Grindr has a Stat for when you were last tested. Straight dating platforms should have it too imo

      • @accideath@lemmy.world
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        426 days ago

        If you‘re sleeping around it’s a good thing, in addition to condoms. Condoms do fail sometimes. The probability of a condom and hormonal birth control failing at the same time is much lower

    • Scratch
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      326 days ago

      I understand the upvotes, but I also understand the downvotes.

      Boys are, in general, dumb. But some are malicious.

      Be careful out there.